School of Humanities and Communication Academic staff

 

 Bryce Barker Australian prehistory, Aspects of cultural anthropology
 Malcolm Brown Islam, Orientalism and Islamophobia; racism and ehtnicity; sociology of religion; religious conversion; pacifism; humour studies; comparative methodology.
 Aidan Burke Organisational communication; crisis management
 Libby Connors Queensland history; legal history; social movement history; environmental history
 Catherine Dewhirst Italian immigration history; Italian notables; ethnic identity
 Alison Feldman  Organisational leadership; change management; community consultation and development; learning organisations; reputation management
 Richard Gehrmann Australians in colonial Asia; international relations; Australian foreign relations; Southeast Asian politics and history
 Karey Harrison Philosophy of language and science, epistemology, models and metaphor, feminist and political theory, discourses on media, education, environment, economics and power
 Anna Hayes Chinese history; gender issues in the PRC; gendered perspectives of human security, and the threats posed by pandemic illnesses such as HIV/AIDS on global human security
 Laurie Johnson Cultural studies; literary theory, psychoanalysis, renaissance literature, 18th century literature
 Dianne Jones Journalism theory and practice; content analysis; gender representation in the mass media
 Eleanor Kiernan The use of multimodal design in hybridised e-learning environments; indigenous students' retention and progression in first year university courses; pedagogy for first year university students; organisational communication
 Chris Kossen Phenomenology; discourse analysis; organisations and older workers; organisational communication; participative planning and decision-making; Corporate branding
 Lara Lamb Australian stone tool technologies; Changing technologies economies and settlement patterns in pre-European contexts in the Whitsunday region; incorporation of 'devout imagery' as body adornment in historical and contemporary cross-cultural settings
 Jill Lawrence Higher education; first year experience; transition and retention; cross-cultural communication; access and equity issues
 Chris Lee Australian and post-colonial literature; the history of criticism; space, place and Identity; representation of war; Australian studies, popular literature 
 Andrew Mason Theories related to the generation of meaning;  a history of arts in the Toowoomba region; investigating epistemological applications of  media
 Don McMillen Asia/China history, policies; international relations
 Brian Musgrove Victorian and modernist literature; cultural studies
 Gabriela Pohl  Cross-cultural issues in education; strategies-based second language instruction
 Ian Richards Community Development; Ethics Sustainability; Telecommunications; Software Engineering
 Barbara Ryan Organisational reputation; reputation in local government and its effect on the way local governments service their communities; the value of communication to local government and their communities
 Lauretta Wright Community welfare and development; community informatics
 Yan Zhao  Teaching Chinese as a foreign language; changes in contemporary China 1949 onwards; Falun Gong and its social impact